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What Drives Human Performance?

In the recent great TED talk, David Epstein raised a question are the athletes really getting faster, better or stronger, and provided compelling evidence that they are not (or not as much we would like), but rather it i…

Mladen Jovanović March 19, 2015

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Training Stress Balance Workbook Con’t

In the previous video I was talking about two different methods of calculating Training Stress Balance and underlying assumptions. In this short addendum I will explain even better method of calculating TSB by combining …

Mladen Jovanović March 12, 2015

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Training Stress Balance: Two Methods of Calculation and Assumptions

In this blog post I will share with you the Excel workbook you can play with, and also the screen cast of me explain how to use the TSB method. I am also discussing different pro’s and con’s of two very similar ways …

Mladen Jovanović March 7, 2015

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Periodization Confusion? Full Video From Windsprint Conference

Periodization Confusion? Full Video From Windsprint Conference As you probably know, I gave a presentation on reconciling periodization/training “confusions” at Windsprint (organized by Håkan Andersson). The slides …

Mladen Jovanović January 25, 2015

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Four Important Complementary Pairs

Four Important Complementary Pairs I believe that there are four important complementary aspects in training (and performance) theory (and reality). Understanding these four aspects can yield many dividends in your train…

Mladen Jovanović January 15, 2015

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Tactical Periodization: Interview With Two of My Colleagues

Tactical periodization is currently the hot topic of the most team sports periodization (planning) talks and discussions. I think it has a lot to offer as the anti-dote to the traditional motor-abilities and physiology-b…

Mladen Jovanović December 12, 2014

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Training Load Monitoring – Seeing the Big Picture

I already mentioned it in the introduction, but basically we have three components: training load and reaction to that load, where current state and context moderates the interaction between the two.

Mladen Jovanović December 6, 2014

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The single most important thing to improve your “gainz” in the gym

Apparently people love clicking on posts entitled like this one: “The best exercises you are not doing”, “Five ways to beach body”, “Six new diets to make you lean” and so forth. I just hate those dumb articl…

Mladen Jovanović November 18, 2014

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Banister Impulse~Response Model in R – Part 1

Banister Impulse~Response Model in R Before you start reading this post, please read EXCELLENT paper by Clark and Skiba, especially on the topic of Banister impulse-response model. I decided to write code in R, but also …

Mladen Jovanović October 14, 2014

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Talent Explained

I believe that most talent ID and development programs are waste of money and maybe counterproductive in actually developing the talent. The general idea of talent ID is flawed: what we are trying to do is to identify th…

Mladen Jovanović October 1, 2014

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Tag: Theory

What Drives Human Performance?

Training Stress Balance Workbook Con’t

Training Stress Balance: Two Methods of Calculation and Assumptions

Periodization Confusion? Full Video From Windsprint Conference

Four Important Complementary Pairs

Tactical Periodization: Interview With Two of My Colleagues

Training Load Monitoring – Seeing the Big Picture

The single most important thing to improve your “gainz” in the gym

Banister Impulse~Response Model in R – Part 1

Talent Explained

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